rattle-snake

I can hear spider rustling sounds over the monsters clicking rattle-snake noise.

The Tail Section » Lost 3.15 Left Behind Promo In Divx 2007

‘Will you swear to that?’ said the singular man, who seemed to await the result of this debate, secure as a rattle-snake is of the prey which has once felt its fascination.

Redgauntlet 2008

Hey, I had one of those Masters of the Universe rattle-snake figures too!

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What is this thing? 2006

Trunnion was thunderstruck at this piece of intelligence: the ring dropped front his hand, and shivered into a thousand pieces; his eye glistened like that of a rattle-snake; and some minutes elapsed before he could pronounce, “Avast! overhaul that article again!”

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

The maniac caught his glance, and turned his eye on him — one has heard of the gaze of the rattle-snake, which allures the trembling victim till he falls within his jaws.

The Last Man 2003

Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, "Don't Tread on Me!"

The Annotated "Uncle John's Band" Robert Hunter 1968

He whipped out his .45, there was a sliver of flame, a sharp crack at which the three steeds of the trio of youthful cowboys jumped slightly, and there writhed on the trail a venomous rattle-snake, its head now a shapeless mass where the bullet from Bud's gun had almost obliterated it.

The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis Willard F. Baker

An eminent virtuoso who understands "what is the best pickle to preserve a rattle-snake or an Egyptian mummy, better than the nature of the government he lives under, or the economy and welfare of himself and family."

Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 Various

The yell of triumph was yet resounding over the square, and awakening responsive echoes among the surrounding hills, when the explosion of at least fifty rifles, sharp, rattling, and deadly, like the war-note of the rattle-snake, followed by a mighty hurrah of Christian voices, and the galloping of horse into the village from above, converted the whole scene into one of amazement and terror.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

Under Dr. Sewall the Physiological Laboratory grew rapidly; new apparatus was purchased and many valuable researches were conducted, not the least of these being the proof, published in 1887, that pigeons might be immunized against rattle-snake poison, -- one of the first cases of the production of an artificial immunity.

The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw